A Victorian-style silver snake bangle Freddie Mercury wore with an ivory satin catsuit in the “Bohemian Rhapsody” video has sold for the highest price ever paid for a piece of jewelry owned by a rock star
A Victorian-style silver snake bangle Freddie Mercury wore with an ivory satin catsuit in the “Bohemian Rhapsody” video sold for the highest price ever paid for a piece of jewelry owned by a rock star, Sotheby's said Wednesday.
The auction opened rapidly with the sale of the graffiti-tagged door to the garden of Mercury's home quickly blowing past the high estimate of 25,000 pounds projected before the sale. The green door covered in hand-painted love notes from fans who made a pilgrimage to the house in the tony Kensington section of London sold for an eye-popping 412,750 pounds that included a buyer's premium.
Some of the proceeds from three live auctions and three online sales were to go to charities. All of the proceeds of the sale of a Cartier onyx and diamond ring given to Mercury by Elton John that sold for 273,000 pounds were to go to the “Rocket Man” singer's AIDS charity. People from around the world visited “Freddie Mercury: A World of his Own,” and the publicity drove up bidding for online auctions that began last month and close next week.
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